EasyCutPopup-Patterns Have you ever wondered how to make a pop-up card? Easy Cut Pop-up™ is maker of the printable Kirigami pop-up card patterns. These fabulous card making templates make the art of Kirigami pop-up cards easy for all paper crafters and scrapbookers. With over 80 printable pop-up card making patterns to choose from, you can make a one of a kind homemade greeting card for any occasion. Designed for beginner paper crafters, but enjoyable for even advanced paper craft enthusiasts. If you are in to Paper Crafts, Origami, Kirigami, Monkiri, Papel Picado, Scherenschnitte, Wycinanki, Card Making, and Scrapbooking, Easy Cut Pop-up™ patterns are a great addition to your paper craft studio. The Easy Cut Pop-up™ patterns are desktop-printable Kirigami pop-up cards designed by Kirigami artist Ellis Paguirigan. Patterns are downloadable PDFs and require 2-3 sheets of card-stock paper. Each pattern includes easy step-by-step instructions, two cover options, including a personalize the cover message option.
Pile of Hearts Pop Up Card For want of a better name, I call these "meet in the middle" pop up cards. Half of the design is cut from either side of the card and the two pieces are slotted together. This card is really an elaborate variation of the slotted X mechanism. The slotted X is covered in Lessons 11 to 15. How to make the pile of hearts card Download and cut out template. Cut file: PDF, DXF, Silhouette Studio, SVG. Remove the large heart that lies on the center fold. Crease the fold lines at the heart bottoms, folding both piles of hearts toward the center foldline. The card will close better if you cut the two halves of the (white) card apart at the center fold and glue them to the base card separately. Optional: back the cut out with patterned paper before gluing to the base card. Glue cut-out part (white) to base card (red). Pull the hearts toward each other and slot together above the center fold of the card. The card lies completely flat when opened.
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Lacy snowflake tutorial This is a speedy, fun project. I've hung one of these in each of our living room windows, and it looks festive and wintery. How to make it: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Templates Below are templates that you can use to make custom cards, envelopes, and boxes. Simply print out the image, use it as a template to cut your fine papers, and fold along dotted lines. Clicking on a link below will take you to an enlarged version and instructions that you can print out. Note: Some of my templates are Adobe Reader PDF files. Here are some useful tips and ideas: Use a photocopier to enlarge or reduce the image to suit your needs. * I strongly recommend that you obtain a bone folder.
Kusudama Tutorial part 1 The Japanese kusudama is a paper ball made out of multiple identical origami shapes glued together. They were traditionally used as a ball for incense or potpourri but now we see them more for decoration or as a gift. Today I am showing you part 1 on how to make the Japanese traditional shape. There are many different patterns to make a kusudama ball but I find this the easiest pattern to get started. This is also the pattern I used to make the pink flowers on the tree in the banner. What you need for this tutorial is: 60 pieces of paper cut into squares. Below I will show you how to make the basic shape, you need to make 60 of these. Fold the bottom corner to the top. Fold the left and right corners up to the middle corner. Fold the same points down. Open up the flaps you have just created and flatten them. Fold the top triangles towards you so they are level with the edges of the paper. Fold the triangles back using the crease you made earlier and glue the outside triangles together.
Gift box packaging tutorial For the past few weeks I've been constantly reminded of how I need to throw out the mindset of "I just need this/that before I can do my project", and rather just use what I have. One of my big problems is that I make something as a gift and then usually can't find appropriate packaging. So I've decided to start making my own. It works out WAY cheaper and if I keep it simple it only takes 10min. Here is a basic tutorial so that you can make your own too. First choose and download a free template from Mirkwood designs for the type of box that suites your need then follow the tutorial. The tutorial below is for 'milk box' packaging, template here, but the same technique applies to all the different box shapes. Print straight onto cardboard or trace the template like I did, because the cardboard I had was too big. Cut it out and with the back of your scissors trace along all the lines that need to be folded. Now fold your box and stick it together. (Korean smiley face)
The Party Dress - Printable Pattern and Tutorial In case you missed my guest blog post on U-Create, here is my pattern for The Party Dress. I’ve updated a few of the steps and tried to clarify some things people had questions about. In thinking about my guest post for U-Create, there really was no question in my mind what I wanted to do. It had to be a dress! So let’s get started……….. **The Party Dress instructions and pattern pieces have been removed. I used Art Gallery Fabrics “Paradise” in Twilight Pond for my main fabric. I have a thing for fabric covered buttons – I L.O.V.E. them! And here’s my little Matilda Jane wearing “The Party Dress”. Now it’s time to party!
DIY: map pendant This was my inspiration for the pendant in Callan's room. I didn't find an online tutorial, I just pinned the image so I knew how to find it when I was ready to wing this project. I'll tell ya, it was really fun to make - I loved seeing it come together, circle by circle. Here's a little how-to: {super easy} I started out with a plain, white, 22", paper pendant. I gathered a few vintage maps from a local antique store - one from California {where Travis is from, and where we lived for 6+ years before moving to OK}, one from New Jersey {where I'm from, born and raised}, and one from Oklahoma {where Callan is from}. {They weren't.} I cut out DOZENS of 5" circles. {I used a small Pyrex bowl as my pattern.} Then hot glued them to the pendant. I went through quite a few glue sticks. But the end result is so fun! It reminds me of a giant artichoke {ish}. At night time, the pendant glows with such a beautiful soft light - perfect ambiance for sleepy baby. {linking up with...}
Tutorial: A Yarn Painted Greeting Card As you will soon discover (if you haven't already), I love making things using stuff I find around the house and in the recycling bin, one of my favourite places (especially since I cleaned it, yesterday). This project is no exception! A yarn painted card! Let's get down to business. Take your sheet of card stock. Take your mesh bag and cut a piece of mesh that is a bit larger than your card: about 1 inch wider in both length and width. Now you can, on a separate sheet of paper, draw out a design, but I just jumped in and improvised to my heart's delight! I took my yarn needle and threaded in some yarn. I wove in a little yellow circle going in and out of the mesh in a spiral. Um, time for another colour! Oh. And now I've filled the whole thing. So now, I machine-sew the mesh to the card, roughly a 1/4" from the edge of the card and all the way around. This is what it looks like from the front so far. See the white machine stitching there... So it looks like this. And voilà!